Comparative International Education Society
focuses on a broad range of educational issues
relevant to education in international and
developing contexts. The Society has a Language
Issues Special Interest Group and each year has
many panels and papers focusing on
language-related aspects of education in
international and developing contexts. Issues
dealt with include monolingual versus
bilingual/multilingual education and the role
of language(s) of instruction in L1 and L2
literacy development as well as the role of
education in language maintenance and
endangerment, globablization and education
etc.

The Comparative International Education Society
(CIES) Language Issues (LI) Special Interest
Group (SIG) is pleased to announce its 2014
Dissertation Award! The award is open to
dissertations that focus on educational
language issues, broadly defined, in
comparative and international education.

Eligible dissertations must have been filed
within an 18-month period prior to the LI SIG
award's extended submission deadline of
February 15, 2014 (e.g., from August 15, 2012
to February 15, 2014). Students in Ed.D. or
Ph.D. programs are eligible and the applicant
and/or the Dissertation Chair must be a current
member of CIES. The winning dissertation will
receive $100.

Call for Papers:

Extended Submission Deadline: February 15,
2014

Dissertations will be reviewed based on the
following criteria:

1. The dissertation's relevance to current
thinking in the field
2. The degree of sophistication or innovation
of the methodology used
3. The soundness of data collection and
analysis
4. The dissertation's social utility and/or its
implication for policy
5. The degree to which the dissertation
incorporates a comparative perspective

Applicants should submit the following four
documents to be considered for the award:

1. A detailed abstract of no more than five
pages along with a self-assessment indicating
how the dissertation meets the above five
criteria; both should be doubled-spaced with no
author identification (for blind review)
2. A title page (not counted within the page
limit) with author's name, address,
institutional affiliation, telephone, e-mail
address, and names of dissertation committee
chair(s) and members
3. A reference page (not counted within the
page limit) with only the references cited in
the abstract
4. One letter from the Dissertation Chair
recommending the dissertation for this award
(this letter may be sent directly to the
Committee at the e-mail address below)

After the initial round of consideration, the
two highest rated candidates will be asked to
send the committee a file with their entire
dissertation. Awardees will be recognized
formally at the LI SIG business meeting at the
CIES Conference in Toronto, Canada, March
10-14, 2014.

Submission Information:

Please, submit the above documents
electronically (as attachments in Word
compatible files) with the key word
'Dissertation Award Submission' in the subject
line to: cieslangsiggmail.com by February 15, 2014. If
you have any questions, please do not hesitate
to contact Awards Committee at the above e-mail
address.